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3441
September 30, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
BOOM
AUG-15
Officer Pays £125 Breach of Promise Damages DANCE HOSTESS SUES "FASCINATED" COLONEL WHO MARRIED OTHER GIRL
FRENCH helmets carried by two members of the Hadfield Spears mobile hospital unit on their arrival i London
Evacuees Don't Have
To Pay
Rent Homes
HOUSEHOLDERS who have been ordered to leave
FASCINATED by a dance hostess at a West End night club, fifty- four-year-old Lieut.-Colonel Humphrey Pellew Forster Mills asked her out to dine, and at their second meeting asked her to marry him. The girl, | daughter of a Chinese-born father and an English mother, eventually
said yes.
In the High Court, just ten months later, Colonel Mills was ordered to pay her £125 damages for breach of promise.
of
The girl is Miss Kathleen Lev. ¡
vor-court, Gloucester-place,
W. Her counsel, Mr. H. F. Levy, K... unfolded the month-by- month story of their whirlwind romance and its sudden collapse - a taxicab for one.
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British evacuation areas will not have to pay rent forting the general officer conured.
their locked-up homes.
Nor will they have to
pay
rates, water, gas, electricity or telephone charges while they are away,
A Goverment arder to this effect!
JAPANESE OUTRAGE
has been insted. It also affords relief: Motor-Boat Attacks
to business people.
"No one will be able to remain in Ilve occupation of any premises or or carry on business in an evacuation aren simply because he intends, when circumstances permalt, to return or to resume the business," says the Order.
"No sun will be recoverable dur
the area."
Ten Cargo Junks
The that thane was a innged for. Penuary 3
He informed a it another letter Luut
leon.
sweet fanity sha Wor lovely
WIL
and!
THESE TOWERS WILL GO
THE too great towers of the Crustal Palace, at Sydenham, S... all that was left of the fam- ou Are in 1936, are to be de- molished, so that the tron may be used for war purposes.
The trustees have placed a con- tract for the work to be put t hand immediately,
The towers, 284 feet high, were built to carry water tanks which would otve sufficient pressure to operate the fountains in the palace and grounds.
Visitors who climbed them, (either by 400 steps or by the lift, had a magnificent vicu of London and of as far afield as Epsom Darons and Windsor.
Betty (aged) Helps To Get Two German Airmen
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BETTY BROWN, daughter
of a farmer in South-East England, helped to arrest the aded net, and he realised what it pilot and gunner of a German plane that had crashed near
would mean to be married to her
The
Colonel Milis told her that his ure
was about £90 month, and;
"I open promised
Banking)
to
her home.
"I was in my riding clothes, and was just going to put on my account to: hei with £50, and make boots for a morning ride," sald well-built Scots tonthly dress allowance of Betty, a tall,
mother girl, "when suddenly
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"I love yota and you are utterly shouted: "There's Д German durable," wrote "On February
I wim going LET marry you plane down over there."
"I rushed out and saw the swastika
towards It felt very foolish, be- couse my slippers kept coming off, but munaged to stumble on some- how.
"Well Behaved"
A Japanese motor-bunt sunk three funks after dumping their cargoes
rammed a capsized whoopereelta overboard and
survivors clung. ar- It was in January that things on its side I jumped the fence and ran bont on which cording to a report made to the Police changed. The colonel, sald Mr Saturday by Lo Chi, Junk foki Levy, wrote what he called "a dif- ing the evacuation period under any Lo stated that at 8 am. on Friday.lt letter to compose." contract for hire or hitre-purchase of a convoy of 10 boats was near Lin He called himself a puur man, and gods by a person who in the case of Tin, Chinese Territory, when I was suggested that she could never exist goods used solely for the purpose of attacked by a Japanese motor-bastun the £250 or £300 your witch a business, has ceased to carry on the The eargues of three junks were was all he could hope for when the business in an eyacuation area, or in dumped overboard
and the
Junk war was over. any other case, has ceased to live in were sunk. Ten members of two uf "I am fity-five, or nearly su," he the junks were taken aboard, Le's went on. "and i cannut deceive my- craft.
{self about my chances of earning 1.0 Aîl that the Japanese then You are yung and beautiful; my bourded his boul, after dumping his ways are not yours.
Your friends goods overboard, capsized his junk would bore me my friends would
Miss Lec, went un counsel, was a person entitled to possession of and climbed on the upturned bout,duzed when she got the letter, unoccupied premises has at any but were once more thrown into the met the rolonel later time lived in the area since the sea when the Japanese motor-bout Cross, and he said he had changed beginning of the evacuation period, rammed the Junk. The Japanese his mind, lie put her in a taxicab
then left.
Lo and tour ethers clung to what
To Some One Else
These rellefs do not apply to con- tracts entered into after the issue of the Order.
A Court has power to modify the thrown into the water swam back
with all its crew aboard. Those drive you crazy in a week."
relicts If it is satished that
and
According to a report made by junk. masters to the Police on the return
and suw her off.
All Canada's Men Will Be Trained
Every able-bodied Canadian is to be trained to defend his home. A call has already been made for 75,000 men to be train- ed in the next three months.
In
"Then some of our workmen, and our milkman, Reg Randall, started
a broadcast, the Minister for out towards the machine, and I saw Alr, Mr, C. G. Power, declared:-- the two Germans walking along. They gave themselves up to the men, "This" nation will be no herda of The pilot had a revolver, but he sur-
refugees, untrained, untaught, help-| rendered it without any fuss.
less and impolent, fleeing bitadly in the face of the enemy... "Rifles, machine-guna and anti-
"1 must say they were awfully well- behaved. The pilot, an officer, was
She
at Charing
tall and good looking, about twenty-aircraft guns are not of much use to Ave, I should say. He said: 'I am a novice" who does not know one endi German, I speak English.' The other of a gun from the other. was a working-class sort of fellow "This calling-up of 75,000 men is and said nothing.
quite a job and it will need readi- Betty's father, Mr. William Brown, ness, willingness, goodwill, tolerance native of Lochabers, said: "I and every help possible from you.
£
"The plain, simple facts are that the courage of the peoples of the British Commonwealth, the gailan- try of our Air Forces, the power of our Navies, and the steadfast- ness of our soldiers are alt that stand between freedom and slavery, between honour and dishonour, be tween civilisation and barbarism, between the survival of good, and the domination of evil,
If the person llable has been was left of their wrecked bont, but
11 was in February-on the second brought them in for a cup of tea and a cigarette. The pilot sald he had enjoying a substantial benefit from the remainder swan to Ki O Island,that Colonel Mills got morrled.) been brought down twice before, in the premises or goods,
n distance of about a mile. Later. Not to Miss Lee, but to some ene Poland and France.
After that parting at the taxi- "He told us he had friends here. restrain execution of orders for re- Chau laland, Chinese Territory, and cab door they did not meet again He spoke warmly about our country.
Power is also given to courts to Lo and those with him swam to Chung else.
He looked out of the window and covery of possession of land against were subsequently pleked up by the until yesterday, in court.
Miss Lee, wearing a navy-blue said, 'Never thought I'd land in old) anyone so affected by evacuation that 8. Kau Tung which tried to fruce
dress with while collar and cuffs, England like this." ho cannot pay his rent or mortgage the other people but failud. JUNKS BOARDED
stopped
the witness-box, "He seemed thoroughly at ease nal interest immediately.
She said that they met about six he sat in the easy chair while we times after becoming engaged, and walted for an escort. When they altogether she received about £75 came he stood up, saluted smartlyWe are fighting alone in the last from the colonel,
and bowed, then said. "Thank you ditch for all we and the world of free At Brat she admired him. Later very much for your cup of tea. men hold dear." Hongkong registered Junks in Chinese she grew to love him, was ready to waters off Mun Shan on September marry him and settle down as his not you we are fighting, but Hitler 20.
Lul Yip-chau, master of junk Mr. Justice Singleton: What was He replied quietly. It's not right Colonel J. L. Ralston, Minister for
we fight England, but the. Fuehrer Mes, Francie Rudolf, a traced nurse
T4915H, reported that eight sailor it, you admired about the defendant bade us, and we worship the ground writes: "Other remedies had faded boarded his vessel, acized hla junk
Miss Lee: He was an upright and lleence, and dumped four cannon, two honourable senior officer and gentle-he walks on'!" muskets und a quantity of gun man. powder overboard. The arms were valued at $250,
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to Hongkong on Friday, a Japanese naval trawler, No. 23, seized three
last
wife.
"One of our men sold to be "It Is Our Battle"
Defence, said recruiting was going on in every district of Canada and units of non-permanent active Militia (corresponding to the Territorials) strength and additional units would were to be recruited up to full
formed.
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Miss Lee left the witness-box, and interested in the money he gave her Colonel MIs, grey-haired, grey from time to time than in him, and Ng Shiu-kwan, moster of junks moustached, entered it. A row of in the and he wrote, and broke off
He added that the home defence T3470H, reported that he received medal ribbons drew the eye to the the engagement.
Asked if that was the real reason units would be trained at night and similar treatment from the Japanese. left breast of his tunic. His arms were worth $165.
He said that his first wife died in he broke off the engagement, Colonel at district headquarters so that the Together
onother junk, 1933 and he had two daughters, one Mills said, "The real reason was mon would not be forced to leave T4010H, all three funks were towed twenty-three, the other twenty-one. complete incompatibility" He added their jobs,
The battle of Britain hus started," by the trawler to Tal Shun Island, He admitted that he was fascinated that his marriage had nothing to do whore, after examinaton, they were by Miss Lee.
with breaking off the engagement to he declared: "It is also the battle of
Caneda. released.
Later he thought she was more Miss Lee.
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